The former Central Bank Governor, and former Emir of kano, His Royal Majesty, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has this to say.. listen 👂 ❤️
My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2022, we speak in the language of 1953
,Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regard himself as bakane.
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The man from Zaria was
bazazzage. The man from Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other
The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now
said it was a Muslim North
The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria.
Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours
Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership?
Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders.
U talk about IBB &the problems of our economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during IBB’s era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika. What state are they from in the North ?
We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urobo land,there will be a curse. I said Urobo ancestors would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urobo people support her?
We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not.
The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal.
Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together
So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Igbo , does not love Nigeria . The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish.
The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South.
The British came for 60 years and there was a documented policy of the British when they came that the Northerners should not be educated. It was documented
It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. They said if you educate the Northerners, you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them.
It was documented that they should not educate us. And you say they love us (North) more than the south.
“I have spent the better part of my life to fight for Justice. Why was I in the pro-democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano ?
Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?
“There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Hausa, good Fulani, good Nigerians. There are good people everywhere, and there are bad people everywhere, that’s the truth.
Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most populous country
in the world. We have all the resources that make it easy to make one united great Nigeria . It is better if we are united than to divide.
Every time you talk about division, when you divide , do you know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say Agbor, you don’t have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed as a political entity?
Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting the Urobos. Isn’t that what was happening? Now they have become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be, if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our resources.
There is no country in the world where resources are found in everybody’s hamlet. But people have leaders &they said if you have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this country have a good nature
So, why don’t u talk about; we don’t have infrastructure, we don’t have education, we don’t have health
infrastructure, We are still talking about Tribe and religion. Even till now, We are still ready to elect a bad leader from our tribe.
—Sanusi Lamido Sanusi✅
We need to elect leaders who are interested in the Nigerian project not tribe interest. We need to choose leaders who are competent to do the job whether they come from us or not.
Las las, We are all part of one tribe— the human tribe
This is a great message to our generation,why did we let them decide us anytime the election is approaching
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